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Long time propagation and control on scarring for perturbed quantized hyperbolic toral automorphisms Jean-Marc Bouclet ∗ evre † Stephan De Bi` Universit´ e de Lille 1 UMR CNRS 8524, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Abstract We show that on a suitable time scale, logarithmic in � , the coherent states on the two- torus, evolved under a quantized perturbed hyperbolic toral automorphism, equidistribute on the torus. We then use this result to obtain control on the possible strong scarring of eigenstates of the perturbed automorphisms by periodic orbits. Our main tool is an adapted Egorov theorem, valid for logarithmically long times. 1 Introduction One of the main results in quantum chaos is the Schnirelman theorem. It states that, if a quantum system has an ergodic classical limit, then almost all sequences of its eigenfunctions converge, in the classical limit, to the Liouville measure on the relevant energy surface [7, 15, 20, 24]. It is natural to wonder if the result holds for all sequences (a statement commonly referred to as “unique quantum ergodicity”). This has been proven to be true for the (Hecke) eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator of a certain class of constant negative curvature surfaces [17] and has been conjectured to be true for all such surfaces [19]. It also has been proven to be wrong for quantized toral automorphisms in [11]. In that case, sequences of eigenfunctions exist with a semiclassical limit having up to half of its weight supported on a periodic orbit of the dynamics. This phenomenon is referred to as (strong) scarring. In [5, 12], it is shown that this last result is optimal: if a measure is obtained as the limit of eigenfunctions then its pure point component can carry at most half of its total weight. Except for the Schnirelman theorem, which holds in very great generality, all cited results are proven by exploiting to various degrees special algebraic or number theoretic properties of the systems studied. It is one of the major challenges in the field to device proofs and obtain results that use only assumptions on the dynamical properties of the underlying classical Hamiltonian system, such as ergodicity, mixing or exponential mixing, the Anosov property, etc. without relying on special algebraic properties. It is argued in [4, 5, 12] for example, that this will require a good control on the quantum dynamics for times that go to infinity (at least) logarithmically as the semiclassical parameter � ∗ Jean-Marc.Bouclet@math.univ-lille1.fr † Stephan.De-Bievre@math.univ-lille1.fr 1

goes to zero: t ≥ k − ln � for some constant k − > 0. It is well known that such control is in general hard to obtain especially since a good lower bound on k − is needed. In this paper, we concentrate on the quantized perturbed hyperbolic automorphisms of the 2 d -torus, which are known to be Anosov systems classically. For those systems, we first prove an Egorov theorem valid for times proportional to ln � , with an explicit control on the proportionality constant k − (Theorem 3.1). This result is obtained by adapting the techniques of [8]. We then combine this result with recent sharp estimates on the exponential mixing of the classical dynamics [3] to study the long time evolution of evolved coherent states (Theorem 4.7), showing that on a sufficiently long logarithmic time scale, those evolved coherent states equidistribute on the torus. Roughly, the result is that for all f ∈ C ∞ ( T 2 ), � � � � ,κ , Op W ( f ) U t U t ǫ ϕ a ǫ ϕ a Q ( f, t, � ) ≡ H � ( κ ) − T 2 f ( x ) d x → 0 , � → 0 , (1.1) � ,κ for times k − ln � ≤ t ≤ k + ln � , 0 ≤ k − ≤ k + . Here U ǫ is the unitary quantum dynamical evolution operator, Op W ( f ) is the Weyl quantization of f , and ϕ a � ,κ is a coherent state at the point a of the two-torus T 2 . For detailed definitions, we refer to the following sections. This result generalizes results obtained in [4] for unperturbed hyperbolic automorphisms. To prove it, we prove an estimate of the type � � � � � � ǫ Op W ( f ) U t ǫ − Op W ( f ◦ Φ t ϕ a � ,κ , ( U − t ǫ )) ϕ a Q ( f, t, � ) ≤ � + � � ,κ H � ( κ ) � � � � � � � � ,κ , Op W ( f ◦ Φ t � ϕ a ǫ )) ϕ a � H � ( κ ) − T 2 f ( x ) d x � � � ,κ ǫ 1 ( � e γ q t ) + ǫ 2 ( � − 1 e − γ c t ) . ≤ Here ǫ 1 and ǫ 2 are functions tending to zero when their argument does. The first term comes from the error term in the Egorov theorem, whereas the second one involves a classical mixing rate γ c . It is obvious that this estimate leads to the result only if γ q ≤ γ c . One therefore needs γ c to be large (fast mixing) and γ q to be small. Sharp results on the classical mixing rates of Anosov systems are hard to come by, but for some Anosov maps, among which the perturbed toral automorphisms that are the subject of this paper, such results have become available recently [3]. The remaining difficulty resides therefore in controlling the exponent in the error in the Egorov theorem. This is dealt with in the next section. We note that, although we prove the Egorov theorem for systems on the 2 d -torus, the result above is only proven for d = 1. Indeed, noting Γ min and Γ max for the smallest and largest Lyapounov exponents of the system, we prove in Section 2 that, essentially, γ q = 3 2 Γ max . On the other hand, the available estimates on the classical mixing rate [3] yield essentially γ c = 2Γ min . Of course, when d = 1, Γ max = Γ min and we have γ q ≤ γ c as needed. For d > 1, on the other hand, our proof of (1 . 1) still goes through, but only under an artificial “pinching” condition of the type 3Γ max < 4Γ min . As an application of the above result, we finally show how to use the information obtained on the evolved coherent states in combination with the basic strategy of [5, 6] to gain some control on the scarring of eigenfunctions (Theorem 4.9, Corollary 4.10). Roughly speaking, we show that if a sequence of eigenfunctions of a quantized perturbed hyperbolic toral automorphism converges to a delta measure on a finite union of periodic orbits, then it must do so slowly. An improvement on this result (basically, on how slowly) has been announced recently in [13]. We don’t expect this result to be optimal: indeed, it is expected, as in the case of unperturbed automorphisms, 2